Lab Schedule Fall 2010

Bot 105 Lab Assignments Fall 2010

Please read instructions and readings below and complete the appropriate assignments BEFORE coming to lab each week. Descriptions of each topic and assignment are available as .pdf files by clicking on each topic title.

There may be some modifications made to this schedule during the semester. It is your responsibility to come to class to find out about any changes and to check this page regularly.

3) Bring to keep in the classroom: Eating utensils, food, and gardening clothes (plus shoes, hat, mosquito repellant, sunscreen, water bottle, etc. that you may want)

1) On your own or with a partner from class, visit 3 different types of gardens.

2) Interview at least 1 gardener about their garden

3) Type 1 paragraph about each garden following instructions on Garden Diversity link.

4) Read articles about gardening and composting under Gardening link and write 1 paragraph about the plant you will plant in the garden next week. What is it? What conditions does it need? What can you use it for?

Today we will plant our class garden. Please bring or come to class in clothes you can get dirty!! Also bring a notebook and seeds or a plant cutting to plant. You may also want to bring: hat, mosquito repellant, sunscreen, water bottle.

1) Paragraphs about gardens

2) Bring seeds and/or plant cuttings to plant in the garden and paragraph about what you will plant (what its ecological needs are and why you want to plant it).

Find or purchase a funky fruit and learn something interesting about it to tell the class. Try to figure out its common and scientific names and what people use it for. (If you are in Daniela's lab section, bring this on Sept. 29)

Write you final project proposal sentence or paragraph!! Address what your topic will be and what type of project it will be. Will it be: interview based? hands on? website? library research? Are there any ethical issues potentially involved? Will you need to write informed consent forms for interviews?

Find or purchase a funky fruit and learn something interesting about it to tell the class. Try to figure out its common and scientific names and what people use it for.

This week we will have a guest lecturer talk about chocolate making in Mesoamerica and show us how chocolate beverages are made.

1) 3 questions for the chocolate lecture (see instructions under the Chocolate Making link).

Do some research on Ethnobotanical methods and type 3 questions to ask our special guest speaker about his fieldwork next week.

8October 12 - 13

Ethnobotanical Fieldwork

Ethnobotanists working in the UH Manoa Botany Department will give us a special presentation about their work and answer student questions about practical issues involved with ethnobotanical fieldwork and career choices.

Voucher Specimen preparation

1) If you have a special cultural artifact you'd like to show the class, please bring it in. Otherwise, bring a picture of one.

2) 3 typed questions to ask our special guest

1. Go into your medicine cabinet at home or local drugstore and find a remedy there that is derived from a plant. Look up how the plant has been used historically, and how, when, and where the isolation of the useful compound took

place. Write a paragraph about it.

OR

2. Bring in a medicinal herb we can infuse along with a paragraph and include the following information:

Today we will discuss the ecological role of secondary chemical compounds created by plants.

Essential oil distillation: we will construct a simple still and extract volatile secondary compounds from plants

We will then work in the garden and observe examples of chemical ecology.

1) Bring to class 1-2 cups of vegetable oil and 1-2 or more glass jars and plant of your choice to infuse

2) Turn in a typed paragraph about the plant you bring in

1) Read article about chemical ecology and type 3 critical thinking questions it made you ponder. Also type a paragraph about the examples of chemical ecology you observed in the garden. Please also research and include suggestions for pest management in our garden in your paragraph.

2) Final project outline due next week!! For more information on how to construct an outline, see the guidelines by clicking on your lab syllabus on top of this page.